.....Brainstorming

Good afternoon beautiful creatures,

    I am starting to dig these weekly blogs, and believe it or not, I'm starting to believe I will be looking forward to blogging, shocker. But they're starting to become therapeutic, you know? I could go off about everything I want whenever I want, its like a free form of therapy.
    Anyways, let's get to the interesting topics. My group and I finally got the opportunity to discuss our project in more detail. We were able to brainstorm a couple of ideas for what we want to do with our project.
And, are you ready for it? Nawal gave me homework............how rude!

Don't worry, it wasn't anything bad, I just had to watch episode 4 season 4 "Hang the DJ" of  the show Black Mirror. This episode is about these individuals that join this Utopian society in order to find their perfect person, and basically they have to go on dates with different individuals until they get paired up with their most compatible lover.
The reason I had to watch the episode was because, Nawal and Shelby got inspired by it. They liked the the whole concept of compatibility. They wanted to incorporate the idea of a Utopian society that runs on compatibility. The signs would be compatible based off of their zodiacs, and their life would revolve around that, all their friendships and intimate relationships are heavily effected on that concept.
 I am actually quite excited for this!
 To be honest, I don't think it'll be hard creating a Utopian society due to the fact that we live in WestOn.
Another concept we came up with in relation to the society, is creating a tattoo-a form of identity- that every individual would have on their right wrist representing their zodiac sign.

Just like the image on the right, we want to incorporate something very similar to that, we are even considering adding possible serial numbers on every person, again to highlight the idea of identity. Since both Nawal and I can do Henna, it'll be easy to work with and it lasts a couple days, so we won't have to go through the process of drawing it on numerous times.

It is weird the way my group is approaching this process, we basically have various details gathered up, but not much of the plot  planned out. But realistically our details and meticulously chosen concepts are pushing us back from the final plot outline, i guess it is alright, we aren't falling behind or anything.... yet. Due to the that, I will let you guys know in my next blog all about our plot and our shooting schedules. But for now,

I Will See You Later *snaps fingers*

( I can't wait to vlog so you guys could actually see my new profound catchphrase, with the finger snap and everything!)

Story Time!

Hey Guys! It's me again

(Bare with me, I am trying to think of a catch phrase, but I guess this will work for now)

Anyways, remember my last blog? Wonderful! There was a part where I mentioned that I had an idea for our film introduction and that I needed to discuss it with the squad before I revealing it to you guys. Well today is your lucky day, I'm going to tell you what my new idea is, because it is better than my original. 
   Yesterday night I had a sleepover with my closest friends and around 1:30 am while we were talking, my best friend and I noticed the stars. They were all beautifully shining in the sky, each one sparkled stronger than the others. Somehow, we ended up laying on my friends backyard ground, staring at the stars for a little over an hour, it was fascinating. We soon realized that these constellations were indeed the zodiacs. We saw a couple, the Gemini, the Virgo, the Cancer, and the Leo. It was honestly one of the most amazing things I have seen in a while.

    My best friend and I start talking, we were discussed the facts relating to individuals and the zodiac, basically the idea of zodiac signs and their representations. I got inspired. While we were discussing our possible plot, I recalled the stars, and I suggested the idea of zodiac.
     What if our main characters are compatible zodiacs, and this was their destiny? Maybe we could have them represent the zodiac? Maybe they could become the zodiac? What if, all the other characters' personalities relate to their zodiacs relationship to the main characters zodiac? So many thoughts were running through my head, so I call the squad to tell them, and to my surprise Shelby had a similar idea to mine. We both had the idea of the zodiac. And that's how it all started.

     We created a love a story about two individuals whose zodiacs are compatible. They were practically destined to be together, where their stars aligned is what were going to call it. The plot goes something like this: the lives of  two individuals and how their worlds collided. In the intro, we are going to present the individuals lives, their friends, and their personalities. We are also going to establish setting.
    Through research  I have learned that the most compatible zodiacs are the ones that are opposite of each other.(Cancer and Capricorn) Also, the zodiacs that are from the same element are usually a power couple.(earth, fire, water, air) Since we are creating a love story between two individuals, we needed to find out the most compatibility between our two characters' zodiacs. For our main character, we decided to make her a Pisces; therefore, our lover is a Virgo, the most compatible to Pisces. The gender of our lover is yet to be determined. The reason she is a Pisces, is because we wanted to represent a zodiac that is easily recognized, and we thought Pisces is the one to go. They're emotional and caring, they love romance and music, they're simple.
    Since we got an idea of our couple's signs, we started to think about their surroundings, their personalities, environment, style, and everything there is to know to build the most realistic characters we could. I really want to delve in the character's world and pull of a J.K Rolling, and I will, but that is for another blog. For our introduction especially, details and background truly matter. We need to get every aspect of our character's star sign correct. I will discuss how we are going to do so in my next blog, along side our genre research, and how we are going to tie in the two.
I really hope you guys enjoyed my story time and.....
 I Will See You Later *snaps finger*
(maybe that could be my catch phrase)



https://www.thisisinsider.com/best-zodiac-sign-couples-2017-2
https://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/zodiac-signs/pisces/

First Blog

 Hey Guys!
   Welcome to the start of something wonderful. This is the first official blog relating to my portfolio project. I am so excited to go through this journey with all of you! Quite honestly, I never thought I would make it this far, but here I am, as ready as I could be.
    For my portfolio project I will be working with Shelby again, and Nawal. I have never worked with Nawal, but I'm positive it will go great. I've worked with Shelby numerous times, and due to our perfectionism, we were always compatible and on the same page so I'm not really worried about working with unfamiliar people. To be honest, for bigger projects like this I am usually better off working by myself, but I wanted to challenge myself and explore this experience with others.
    I'm going to reveal something: My group and I haven't decided on a genre yet. Shocking, I know. We are still in the process of figuring out what all of our creative minds can beautifully create, but that is what research is for. Throughout all of our discussions and previous research, I believe we are leaning towards the romantic genre. We have yet to identify with the specifics but, hopefully we will have it figured out by my next blog.
   Since I am known to be a control freak and like to have everything organized before I begin everything, here are the steps we are going to follow for our research:

1. Brainstorm ideas for introduction
2. Research for story
3. Research on genre
4. In depth research of technical aspects of selected genre.

   These four steps are our guide to have a full proper research component for our project. I'm not going to go into full details about these steps yet, I'm just going to let the blog do its job. I do have an idea of what I want to do, but I have to discuss it with the squad first. If my plans go accordingly, which they always do, our group will end up going with my idea. Once, I have informed them, I will let you guys know what it is, but for now enjoy being in the dark.
   I am also known to be a little extra, which means I will be going full on with this project. I'm going to be maxing out the extremes with my ideas relating the plot and all the elements within it. I would love to do numerous things with this and I could tell you guys a couple things off the top of my heard right now, but I don't have much time. But I can tell you this:
   My thoughts are swirling everywhere right now. My imagination is on panic mode. Seriously, my brain is going to fry if I don't stop thinking. I'm starting to get overwhelmed. This project determines  basically half of my overall grade....yay!
  I'm getting a little too excited, too nervous, and too anxious but, I'm fine.
  yeah......
  I'm totally fine.......
  No stress whatsoever.

music marketing project

Hello guys! 

It's been a while since I have blogged, but I am back!

   To catch you up on what I have been up to the last couple months, I along with my friends Naja and Shelby were busy creating a Marketing campaign for our lovely band.

   Today, I am going to walk you through our campaign. Obviously the first thing we did was research our genre and target audience. We conducted our research by looking into two bands within our genre of Indie-Rock. We chose the bands, The Black Keys and The Foals because we felt that they were a good representation of what we want our band to be. They both have a similar target audience to ours, 16-25 middle class individuals with an artsy vibe.

   The research was a major component in our marketing process, because it provided us with all the important details we need to know to create the perfect Indie-Rock band. From the research we mainly focused on understanding the representation component. For example: How we wanted the band  to look, the message they gave, what their social medias looked like, basically the bands image image. 

   After we finished with our research, we decided to build our marketing plan. An important fact that we had to focus on was that our Target audience is heavily reliant on social media and the internet, for that reason, we created the following:

- Our Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/s.o.l.e.music/?hl=en

- Our Twitter account:  https://twitter.com/sole_music_

-Our website:  https://reemhabbal3.wixsite.com/solemusic

   The reason we chose the colors of: light pink, light grey, and white for our theme is because the combinations of these colors creates the vibe that we want for the band. The colors have an aesthetic feel, and if there is one thing you learn about Indie-Rock is that its aesthetic.

  Social Media is the number one way to promote oneself. In today's world that is about the only way you could reach a variety of people, all at the same time, for sometimes free. We could carry a campaign without the social medias. But we did need something to promote. Since our band is fairly new, we wanted to start with something small. We started booking our band to local clubs around our area, like in Miami and Ft Lauderdale. So, we created fliers to sponsor our band, and to post them on social media. Of course we had to plan ahead. So we started to plotting a long term plan, which went along the lines of: starting of in local clubs, and charities, then expanding to opening up for smaller artists within our genre, to expand our fan base. Then, we will open up, for bigger artist, preferably in the pop genre, because that genre targets a wider range audience to eventually opening our own major tour.

  Now for the boring part. While creating this campaign, I have come to multiple conclusions. The first one being, do not rush the planning process. The planning is the most important part of any project because it creates a guideline for what you will be creating, because working on the blind side is not a great idea. Also, it is really important to fully understand your genre and target audience. If you do not understand your target audience, you will not be creating a successful project, no matter what it is. So for the film introduction, I will be making sure that I fully understand who my audience is. The last major thing I learned, is to plan realistically. Sometimes we get out of hand while we are planning, and we sometimes forget the reality of the situation. I have come to learn to take things step by step, or else you will end up screwing yourself over. 

That is for my blog today, I hope you enjoyed. 

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